The Research Prisms can be traded or sold on the broker, however they can only be utilized by a crafter that is level 90 or above.

NOTE: The initial rank of a tradeskill apprentice is Apprentice. By researching recipes tradeskill apprentices level up gradually and receive the ranks similar to the spells progression, i.e. Journeyman, Expert, etc. The following rank progression applies both to the Skyshrine and the cities' apprentices:

You begin by hailing the tradeskill apprentice, and selecting a recipe to begin researching. Once the tradeskill apprentice has begun researching a recipe, you can speed up the process by tutoring him/her, or completing a quest. You can speed up the research in 2 ways each day:

1. The tutoring session is available once every 18 hours. It is performed by hailing the tradeskill apprentice, and offering to show him/her how to do his/her work more efficiently or by right-clicking him/her and choosing "Coach". As the result, the research time will be reduced by 4 hours. The following achievements are rewarded in accordancce with the number of times you have coached your tradeskill apprentice:

Researching Coach V - coach your tradeskill apprentice 5 times

Researching Coach X - coach your tradeskill apprentice 10 times

Researching Coach XXV - coach your tradeskill apprentice 25 times

Researching Coach L - coach your tradeskill apprentice 50 times

Researching Coach C - coach your tradeskill apprentice 100 times

Researching Coach D - coach your tradeskill apprentice 500 times

Researching Coach M - coach your tradeskill apprentice 1000 times

2. The quest is a daily quest (see details below) that resets at 11 PM US Pacific time, also you cannot do it again in less than 18 hours. It consists of crafting a single item that corresponds with your tradeskill "tier". As the result, the research time will be reduced by 4 hours. Each quest also rewards you with a Pouch of Unused Materials and about 5% Tradeskill XP gain. New rewards were introduced for level 95 crafters as of GU66, including

NOTE: You cannot speed up the research of Elder Yelnar or Overlord Deshniak!

With the release of LU66, level 95 reactants and recipes have been made available to the existing Tradeskill Apprentices. Most of the recipes researched contain two versions of each item, a standard version and a "tempered" version. The standard versions require only reactants and harvestable materials, while the "tempered" versions require components that are obtained while adventuring in LU66 zones.